Champions League draw LIVE: Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Aston Villa learn fixtures ahead of new format

On we go with Club Brugge:

Dortmund h, Man City a, Juventus h, AC Milan a, Sporting CP h, Celtic a, Aston Villa h, Sturm Graz a.

Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen:

Inter Milan h, Liverpool a, AC Milan h, Atletico Madrid a, RB Salzburg h, Feyenoord a, Sparta Praha h, Brest a.

And a third English side out - it’s Arsenal.

Their games: PSG h, Inter Milan a, Shakhtar h, Atalanta a, Dinamo h, Sporting CP a, Monaco h, Girona a.

First out are Atletico Madrid.

Fixtures: RB Leipzig h, PSG a, Bayer Leverkusen h, Benfica a, Lille h, RB Salzburg a, Slovan Bratislava h, Sparta Praha a.

Next it’s Atalanta the reigning Europa League champions, now in the Champions League.

Fixtures; Real Madrid h, Barcelona a, Arsenal h, Shakhtar a, Celtic h, Young Boys a, Sturm Graz h, Stuttgart a.

As a colleague points out while the ‘pot 2’ montage of teams are being played, Uefa could absolutely do all of this with a single push of the button. The software could automate it instantly.

This is all...ceremony. A bit of an event, doing it team by team. On we go with the second batch of nine teams!

PSG are the last pot 1 team out and they’ll play:

Man City h, Bayern Munich a, Atletico Madrid h, Arsenal a, PSV h, Salzburg a, Girona h, Stuttgart a.

Three or four cracking games there.

Real Madrid the current champions are out next.

Their fixtures: Dortmund h, Liverpool a, AC Milan h, Atalanta a, Salzburg h, Lille a, Stuttgart h, Brest a.

And next out is Liverpool - we already have a couple of their games.

The Reds’ games: Real Madrid h, Leipzig a, Bayer Leverkusen h, AC Milan a, Lille h, PSV a, Bologna h, Girona a.

An interesting mix for Arne Slot’s side!

Borussia Dortmund are out next.

They’ll play: Barcelona h, Real Madrid a, Shakhtar h, Brugge a, Celtic h, Dinamo a, Sturm Graz h, Bologna a.

Barcelona are next out from Buffon.

They face: Bayern h, Dortmund a, Atalanta h, Benfica a, Young boys h, Red Star a, Brest h, Monaco a.

So Villa will wait until the end in pot four, but they already know one opponent there in Bayern Munich. On we go.

RB Leipzig are next out and they will face:

Inter Milan a, Liverpool h, Juventus h, Atletico Madrid a, Sporting CP h, Celtic a, Aston Villa h, Sturm Graz a.

A first match for Liverpool there too, a trip to Germany.

Next up Inter Milan:

Their fixtures - Leipzig h, Man City a, Arsenal h, Leverkusen a, Red Star h, Young Boys a, Monaco h, Sparta Praha a.

Bayern Munich:

They will play - PSG h, Barcelona a, Benfica h, Shakhtar a, Dinamo h, Feyenoord a, Slovan Bratislava h, Aston Villa a.

Here we go! Buffon drawing the teams, Ronaldo...pressing a button.

First out is Manchester City.

Let’s see how long it takes after some big button-pushing...about five seconds.

Inter Milan (h) and PSG (a); Brugge (h) and Juventus (a); Feyenoord (h) and Sporting (a);; Sparta Praha (h) and Bratislava (a) are their opponents!

Another video for the explainer. Here are the highlights for the final time.

Four pots - the holders and top eight in coefficient rankings in pot 1, then down the list.

Each team is drawn out in turn (pot 1 teams first, then two and so on) and software automatically assigns random, eligible teams for them to face.

No team from the same association in the fixtures, and a maximium of two from other associations.

The software draws eight opponents, two from each pot, automatically makes four of them home and four away games.

The software also makes sure every club left in can still get a full round of fixtures at every turn.

Match calendar with order of games will be released on Saturday.